Humidifying means.



F. B. COMINS.

HUMIDIFYING MEANS,

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1.119,64. PatentedAug. 29,1916.

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FRANK B. COMINS, QE' SHARON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN IVIOISTENING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

HUMIDIFYING MEANS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 29, 1916.

Application led March 31, 1914. Serial No. 828,493.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK I3. CoMiNs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sharon, in the county of Norfolk and State of IIassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in IIumidifying Means, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

This invention has reference to improvements in humidifying means for supplying humidity to large areas.

The object of this invention is to provide means whereby humidity may be circulated and distributed throughout a large area without the use of fans and whereby the deposition of moisture in drops or other comparatively large segregated particles is avoided.

Another object of this invention is to so construct a humidifying means of the nature herein described that a series of humidiied air sprays may combine to produce vortical action of the atmosphere to carry outward the larger' particles of moisture through a considerable area and that some of said sprays may be directed at angles to the whirl of the fiuid whereby the currents of whirling fluid may be disturbed and distributed throughout a large area.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the following description.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combination of parts as shall hereinafter be more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1, represents a side elevation of the improved humidifying means, parts of the same being broken away and other parts beingr omitted to avoid confusion. Fig. 2, represents a plan view of the same, parts being broken away.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout.

In carrying this invention into practice I construct a post or pedestal 5 which is adapted to sustain the humidifying means at a suitable height in the room or chamber to which humidity is to be supplied. pedestal 5 is mounted the water reservoir 6 to which water is supplied through the pipe 7 and on said water reservoir 6 I mount the valve chamber 8 having the valved inlet 9 to which air under suitable pressure is supplied through the pipe 10. This valve chamber 8 0n the and the valved inlet 9 may be of any well known construction but I prefer to make use of the construction shown and described in U. S. patent to Alfred Clarkson, No. 675,556, dated June 4, 1901.

Mounted on the wall of valve chamber 8 is a series of comparatively short radially extending pipes 11, 11 having at their outer ends sockets 12, 12 in which sockets are pivotally mounted the bent ends of pipes 13, 13 to form, in effect, swivel connections. On the outer ends of said pipes 13,13 are mounted the unions 111-, 14 of the transversely eX- tending atomizer air chambers 15, 15 so that these chambers may be swung relative to the axes of pipes 13, 13. The atomizer chambers 15, 15 carry the water receiving chambers 16, 16 which are supplied with water by means of the flexible pipes 17, 17 which communicate with said chambers 16, 16 and with the water reservoir 6. The atomizer chambers 15, 15 and 16, 16 have the angularly dispo-sed outlets 18 and 19, 19 whereby air issuing from the outlets 18, 18 may induce the flow of water from the outlets 19, 19 and effect the atomization of said water. Clearing of said outlets may be effected, in the well known manner by the clearer wires 20, 20, 21, 21 extending through the chambers 15, 15 and 16, 16 and operatively connected with the levers 22, 22 which are pivotally mounted on studs extending from said chambers 15, 15.

The levers 22, 22 or any of them may be operated to project their related clearers 21, 21 into the outlets 19, 19 of their respective water chambers 16, 16 to thereby close said mouthpieces to the flow of water therethrough while the flow of air through the outlets 18, 18 may continue and in some cases the supply of air alone from certain of the atomizers while humidified air is supplied from other of said atomizers is desirable, for one reason, because the air delivered thus under pressure is the carrying medium for the moisture and the projection of some currents of dry air among the currents of humidiied air tends to sustain and distri-bute said humidified air.

vWhile this invention is not limited to the use of any particular number of atomizers arranged to deliver in directions inclined to the radii of an aXis common to all of said atomizers, I prefer to make use of six of such atomizers so that the air currents issuing from said atomizers may mingle and form a vortex or whirl which circulates the moisture of said currents in a vertical path whereby the heavier drops or particles of moisture are better sustained than would be the case if no vortical action of the currents was effected. Also, in the use of six atomizers as herein referred to, humidied air currents may be delivered from certain of the atomizers while comparatively dry air is delivered from another or others of said atomizers. It is also found that relative adjustment of the atomizers to effect the desired result is facilitated by the use of six of said atolnizers as alternate atomizers may be adjusted to deliver at upward or downward inclinations from the vertical or at greater or less inclinations or angles from their radii.

It is of course evident that if alternate atomizers are swung ontheir unions 14, 1.4

to deliver humidii'ied air at slight upward angles and the intervening atomizers are set to deliver dry air approximately horizontally the vortex of comparatively dry air will assist in sustaining the whirl of humidi- Alied air. So also the relative adjustment of the atomizers by swinging of the sustaining pipes 13, 13 in their sockets 12, 12 will effect changes in the vertical action of the spraysor currents delivered from said atomizers.

By reference to said patent to Clarkson,

it. will be seen that by the adjustment of the valve of inlet 9 the low of air may be cut off from certain atomizers or from all of said atomizers.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent.

1. Humidifying means comprising a water supply, and an air supply both constituted by a common cylinder, and a series of nozzles mounted to receive air and water from said supplies and discharging tangential to said cylinder.

2. Humidifying means coniprising a plurality of atomizers arranged around a common cylinder and discharging in directions tangential to said cylinder, and means to supply water and pressure medium to said atomizers.

3. Humidifying means comprising a water reservoir, an air reservoir or container mounted on said water reservoir and having a series of radial pipes having sockets at their outer ends, a series of angle pipes pivotally mounted in said sockets, a series of atomizers having their air chambers pivetally mounted on said angle pipes and communicating therewith, independent means for closing the water outlets of said atomizers, and flexible pipes connecting the water chambers of the respective atomizers with said water reservoir.

FRANK B. COMINS.

Witnesses CHARLES B. CUMMiNes, HENRY J. MILLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

